Monsieur Camembert

Monsieur Camembert
Origin Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Genres Gypsy jazz, World
Years active 1999 (1999)–current
Labels MGM
Website Official website
Members Yaron Hallis
Matt Ottignon
Edouard Bronson
Marcello Maio
Julian Curwin
Mark Harris

Monsieur Camembert is a five-piece Gypsy fusion band formed in Sydney, Australia in 1997. They have won three ARIA Music Awards for Best World Music Album in 2002 for Live on Stage (released in 2001), in 2003 for Absynthe and in 2005 for Monsieur Camembert.[1] The linguistic repertoire of Monsieur Camembert's music includes English, Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish.

History

Monsieur Camembert formed as a five-piece Gypsy fusion band in Sydney, Australia in 1997. Their first album, was the live release The Gypsy Hot Club Presents Monsieur Camembert, which featured Svetlana Bunic on accordion, Julian Curwin on lead guitar, Yaron Hallis on vocals and rhythm guitar, Michael Lira on double bass and Daniel Weltlinger on violin and was recorded at The Gypsy Hot Club.[2] Released in 1999, it is also titled, Live @ The Basement and demonstrated their styles including Gypsy swing, Greek, Hungarian-Russian gypsy, klezmer, tango and original songs.[2]

Their second album was also a live performance, Live on Stage which was released on 11 September 2001. Performing on the album were Mark Atkins on didgeridoo, Eddie Bronson on percussion, Bunic, Curwin, Shenton Gregory on violin, Hallis and Mark Szeto on bass.[3]

They have won three ARIA Music Awards for Best World Music Album (2002, 2003, 2005).[1] The linguistic repertoire of Monsieur Camembert's music includes English, Russian, Romani, Hebrew and Yiddish.

Band members

As of 2009:

Guest artists including:

Discography

References

  1. 1 2 "ARIA Awards 2009 : History: Winners by Artist: Monsieur Camembert". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 2 December 2009.
  2. 1 2 "The Gypsy Hot Club presents Monsieur Camembert". Music Australia. National Library of Australia. 2 October 2009. Retrieved 2 December 2009.
  3. ↑ Spencer, Chris; Paul McHenry; Zbig Nowara (2007) [1989]. "Monsieur Camembert". The Who's Who of Australian Rock. Moonlight Publishing. ISBN 1-86503-891-1. Retrieved 26 November 2009. Note: [on-line] version was expanded from the 2002 edition.
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